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Atari ST price comparision between IBM and Apple laser printers and an entir Atari ST Desktop publishing system
Atari ST price comparision between IBM and Apple laser printers and an entir Atari ST Desktop publishing system
14 Comments
March 7th, 2010 at 9:00 am
I want to know how this was possible. What was the catch?
March 7th, 2010 at 9:42 am
yes they are
March 7th, 2010 at 10:35 am
that means…my dad had one
March 7th, 2010 at 11:29 am
no just kidding i had one
March 7th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
nice, i have to buy one
March 7th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
I don’t think Atari and Commodore were very good at marketing, hence both went out of business a long time ago. Apple did a much better job at there marketing, because back in the 80′s the AtariST and Amiga certainly better than the mac’s were technology wise.
March 7th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
And I am sure a Macintosh II with a good nubus card would outcompute the atari
March 7th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I wonder how you can fit 30 Mb computer to run almost any modern software let alone You Tube.
In 1989 I had an Atari mega 2 (Mbs) with a 40 Mb HD disk using 720k (floppy) disks. My entire WP “Word Writer ST” was only two floppies – 1.4 Mb, which I happerley used for 4 years and then I got a 486 and the troubles of WIN 3.1.
I very much enjoyed the PD “snowman demo” does anyone have it on You Tube?
March 7th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
What a horribly worded ad! First, it sings praise for Apple and IBM and then it jokingly says: “…what a terrible marketing company Atari must be…” You really must NEVER do things like this in marketing!!!
March 7th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Wow, and remember $5,000 back then was probably $10,000 in today’s dollars! How technology has advanced!
March 7th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
gotta love those old computers
March 7th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
This was actually an OKI printer wasn’t it?
March 7th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Ah, fond memories. I’ve never had the laser printer, but I still have the Mega ST4 with an 68030 board, 4MB fast RAM and a Tseng ET4000 with 1MB VRAM. A really fine system…
March 7th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Great to see the old commercials and the prices of that time